UPENN Hill Pavilion Living Wall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006


The Hill Pavilion is the new building for the University's Veterinarian School. Michael Singer was commissioned to develop interior design and interactive sculptural elements for the large ground floor public spaces and lobby. Collaborating with Potion, a media design firm and Richard Rabinowitz, an interpretive planner at American History Workshop, Singer developed the Living Wall. The wall is comprised of 9 specially sculpted and shaped screens that receive digital graphic projections, including 500 hours of visual and text information about all aspects of the Veterinary Program. On a large centrally located interior wall that is also visible through a glass curtain wall from an outdoor pathway, Singer designed a wall graphic interpretation using the school's collection of Edward Muybridge's animal motion studies. Many of these studies were done in the late 1900's at the school.

Artists/Designers: Potion and Michael Singer
Research and Interpretive Design: American History Workshop
Graphic Design: Potion
Screen Project Manager and Fabrication:
Paul Molinelli
Design and Drafting: Potion and Jason Bregman
Building Architects: Polshek Partnership
Photography: Courtesy of Potion

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